Lettuce Dishes

 Today's everyday object: one of the lettuce dishes.

There are huge plates, smaller plates, medium bowls, a pitcher, a covered dish -- a sugar dish or sauce dish, perhaps? -- with a lid and a matching spoon, and an oblong serving bowl. I am greatly amused by these dishes. They are large and ungainly and magnificently leaflike. I hardly use them, and that is a shame. They bring me an unexpected happiness. Perhaps I should use them more often. Just because.